2 Samuel 5:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he ruled for forty years.

Cross References

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty when the king made him governor, and he went everywhere for the king.

1 Chronicles 26:31

Jerijah was the leader of the Hebron clan. David assigned him and two thousand seven hundred of his relatives, who were all respected family leaders, to be the officials in charge of all religious and government business in the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh. David found out about these men during the fortieth year of his rule, when he had a list made of all the families in the Hebron clan. They were from the town of Jazer in the territory of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 29:27

for forty years. He ruled from Hebron for seven years and from Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

Luke 3:23

When Jesus began to preach, he was about thirty years old. Everyone thought he was the son of Joseph. But his family went back through Heli,